Season 2, Episode 41: Books Other People Made Us Read + How We Process Non-fiction
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Today, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: the fifth COVID(eo) episode and a new look
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Current Reads: books that other people made us read, and another (shocking) second in a series
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Deep Dive: our processes for reading non-fiction by genre and format
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Book Presses: some non-fiction to round out your reading life
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Bookish Moments:
6:16 - COVID(eo) episode #5 - Off the Rails
7:44 - Absolute Jem
Current Reads:
8:58 - Dread Nation by Justina Ireland (Kaytee)
9:06 - American Royals by Katherine McGee
9:34 - @booknerdnative on Instagram
12:37 - On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness by Andrew Peterson (Meredith)
15:55 - The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
17:12 - Only When It's Us by Chloe Liese (Kaytee)
17:20 - @lovelibooks on Instagram
19:59 - The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare
22:04 - A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny (Three Pines #2) (Meredith)
22:20 - Still Life by Louise Penny (and accompanying book club discussion for patrons)
26:23 - Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys (Kaytee)
26:40 - @melizreads18 on Instagram
29:29 - Sarah's Bookshelves Live, episode with @jordys.book.club
29:40 - FantasticLand by Mike Backovan (Meredith)
32:21 - Lord of the Flies by William Golding
32:23 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
35:31 - The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
35:45 - The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
35:56 - Sadie by Courtney Summers
Deep Dive - The Ways We Read Non-Fiction:
38:31 - Educated by Tara Westover
39:24 - The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
39:32 - Stretched Too Thin by Jessica Turner
42:21 - Bad Blood by Jon Kerryrou
42:23 - She Said by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey
42:26 - Disney Wars by James Stewart
Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
44;48 - How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi (Kaytee)
48:08 - The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown (Meredith)
Connect With Us:
Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram
Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram
Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram
@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. We are two bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we've read recently, and you should know we won't shy away from having strong opinions so get ready. |
| 0:24.4 | We are right on the chit chat heavy on the book talk and our descriptions will always be |
| 0:28.8 | spoiler free. We'll discuss our current reads of bookish deep dive, |
| 0:33.0 | and then we'll press books into your hands. |
| 0:35.2 | I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four, |
| 0:37.6 | and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas, |
| 0:40.2 | and my favorite place to read these days is in the sun. And I'm |
| 0:44.0 | I'm Katie Combe, a homeschooling mom of four, living in New Mexico, |
| 0:47.0 | and I am so grateful for my mom who instilled my love of reading. |
| 0:51.0 | This is episode number 41 of season two, and we're so glad you're here. |
| 0:55.0 | Oh that's right we're recording right before Mother's Day. |
| 0:58.0 | Yeah and so I thought we could just put a little time stamp on there like |
| 1:02.0 | Mother's Day, we love you moms whoever |
| 1:05.7 | you're a mom to or you have as a mom there's probably some reading in that relationship if you're |
| 1:10.5 | listening to this podcast right right? Raising Readers. |
| 1:14.0 | All right, so we are going to do a deep dive later on today |
| 1:20.0 | that is really interesting. |
| 1:21.0 | We've gotten a couple of questions from people asking us about our non-fiction reading and |
| 1:27.2 | most specifically does our non-fiction reading look different than our fiction reading. Do we take in non-fiction in |
| 1:34.5 | different ways than we do fiction? Do we interact for those books differently? |
| 1:38.2 | So we're going to talk about that a little bit later. I'm excited about that. |
| 1:40.9 | Before we get into our bookish moments of the week, Katie, we wanted to talk just a little bit about our bookish friends group for currently reading. |
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